Virginia Vale

Virginia Vale

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, 20 May 1920 – 14 Sep 2006) was an American film actress. She starred in a number of B-movie Westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver. Vale was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Howe. Before becoming a professional actor, she was a switchboard operator in Dallas, Texas, and honed her acting skills in productions at a little theater in Dallas. After a representative of Paramount Pictures saw her in a leading role, he invited her to make a screen test, which led to a contract. (Another source says that Howe was working at the switchboard in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Dallas office, where a talent scout for Paramount found her and signed her to a contract. Career Several of Vale's early films were made using her birth name. The name Virginia Vale had been chosen in advance for the female winner of the 1939 Gateway to Hollywood contest, a nationwide talent search sponsored by producer Jesse Lasky -- as noted (somewhat indignantly) then by another Virginia Vale a syndicated columnist covering the film industry. Vale edged out Rhonda Fleming in the 1939 contest. After her film career, she became an executive secretary at Lockheed and also a competition judge for the US Figure Skating Association. She was eventually honored by the USFSA for 50 years of service in that role. Before becoming a judge, she'd also briefly been a competition skater. Her life in film and skating was featured at the 2002 U.S. figure skating championships and a memorial trophy for "most outstanding performance" was given in her name at the 2007 California Championships.

  • Title : Virginia Vale
  • Popularity : 2.421
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1920-05-20
  • Place of Birth : Dallas, Texas, USA
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  • Also Known As : Dorothy Howe
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Virginia Vale Movies

  • 1937
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    True Confession

    True Confession

    5.8 1937 HD

    A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

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  • 1945
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    Crime, Inc.

    Crime, Inc.

    4.2 1945 HD

    A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his...

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  • 1940
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    Bullet Code

    Bullet Code

    5.6 1940 HD

    Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has...

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  • 1942
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    Broadway Big Shot

    Broadway Big Shot

    1 1942 HD

    This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous...

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  • 1941
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    Blonde Comet

    Blonde Comet

    5.2 1941 HD

    A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.

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  • 1940
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    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    4.5 1940 HD

    Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

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  • 1938
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    Her Jungle Love

    Her Jungle Love

    6.2 1938 HD

    While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping...

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    Cocoanut Grove

    Cocoanut Grove

    1 1938 HD

    Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

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  • 1939
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    Disbarred

    Disbarred

    6 1939 HD

    The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing...

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    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    5.972 1938 HD

    The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

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  • 1940
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    Millionaires in Prison

    Millionaires in Prison

    6 1940 HD

    A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

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  • 1941
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    Red Skins and Red Heads

    Red Skins and Red Heads

    1 1941 HD

    Whitley and his singing group want to make time with young ladies at a finishing school...and vice-versa. However, the old matron in charge threatens...

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  • 1940
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    Triple Justice

    Triple Justice

    6 1940 HD

    Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...

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  • 1939
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    The Marshal Of Mesa City

    The Marshal Of Mesa City

    8 1939 HD

    A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

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  • 1941
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    Robbers of the Range

    Robbers of the Range

    7 1941 HD

    Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.

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  • 1937
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    Night Club Scandal

    Night Club Scandal

    4 1937 HD

    When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

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  • 1939
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    Unmarried

    Unmarried

    3 1939 HD

    Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and...

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  • 1940
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    Legion of the Lawless

    Legion of the Lawless

    5.2 1940 HD

    Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.

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  • 1941
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    South of Panama

    South of Panama

    6 1941 HD

    Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability...

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  • 1939
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    Three Sons

    Three Sons

    3.2 1939 HD

    A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.

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  • 1941
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    A Panic in the Parlor

    A Panic in the Parlor

    1 1941 HD

    Leon goes partying in Tiajuana with a friend,and his wife gets wise and makes plans to each him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers,...

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  • 1939
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    Persons in Hiding

    Persons in Hiding

    3.5 1939 HD

    During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

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  • 1941
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    Repent at Leisure

    Repent at Leisure

    5.7 1941 HD

    Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.

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  • 1940
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    Stage to Chino

    Stage to Chino

    4.8 1940 HD

    To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

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  • 1938
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    King of Alcatraz

    King of Alcatraz

    5.7 1938 HD

    A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the...

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  • 1940
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    Prairie Law

    Prairie Law

    5.5 1940 HD

    Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of...

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  • 1941
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    The Gay Falcon

    The Gay Falcon

    6.2 1941 HD

    Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...

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  • 2018
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    New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam

    8.4 2018 HD

    The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and...

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